#hook

A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#hooks #no-hands #viewfinder #love

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#busted #butts #cigarette #drank #floor

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#did #doing #get #hooked #i

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#come #continue #euphoric #gets #hook

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. ↗

— Ovid

#cast #expect #fish #hook #least

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ↗

— Ovid

#always #cast #everything #expect #fish

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook. ↗

— David Copperfield

#give #hook #i #magic #stage

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you. ↗

— Jim Dale

#bites #casting #feeling #few #fishing

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there. ↗

— Larry David

#committed #couple #doing #first #fortunate

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#credibility #good #got #hood #hook